- Full Citation: "NYC Zoning - About New York City Zoning." NYC Department of City Planning. NYC Gov, 2011. Web. 27 Nov. 2011. <http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/zone/zonehis.shtml>.
- The author was not disclosed on this website
- The main topic is to provide a history on the background of zones and the reason for zoning in New York City.
- (a) As early as the 1870’s, New Yorkers began to complain about the loss of light and fresh air as taller residential buildings began to appear on the island of Manhattan. (b) The Zoning Resolution of 1916 established restrictions on height and designated residential districts. (c) The Zoning Resolution of 1961 was a revamped ruling to incorporate parking and open space as well as coordinate use (i.e. residential, community facility, retail and service, waterfront, etc.) and bulk (i.e. lot size, floor area ratio, open space, yards, height, setback, etc.) regulations.
- (a) “Zoning shapes the city…[it] determines the size and use of buildings, where they are located and, in large measure, the density of the city’s diverse neighborhoods.” (b) “The new ordinance became a model for urban communities throughout the United States as other growing cities found that New York’s problems were not unique.” (c) “Time passes, land uses change, and zoning policy accommodates, anticipates and guides those changes. In a certain sense, zoning is never final; it is renewed constantly in response to new ideas—and to new challenges.”
- 6. The text argues that zoning helps shape the formation of our cities. This supports my research focus because I argue that the set-up of cities is what makes them unsustainable. Thus alluding to how zones are unsustainable.
- 7. I talked about the Zoning Resolutions of 1916 and 1961 in my matrix post and also used this quote in this sentence from the reference: This document “coordinated use and bulk regulations, incorporated parking requirements, and emphasized the creation of open space” (NYC.gov)
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